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Design and Crime
Hal Foster
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Description for Design and Crime
Paperback. Art critic with influential critique of art and architecture. Series: Radical Thinkers Classic Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages, ill. BIC Classification: ABA; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 230.
In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of design. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime explores the historical relations of modern art and modern museum, the conceptual vicissitudes of art history and visual studies, the recent travails of art criticism, and the double aftermath of modernism and postmodernism in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.
In these diatribes on the marketing of culture and the branding of identity, the development of spectacle-architecture and the rise of global cities, Hal Foster surveys our new political economy of design. Written in a lively style, Design and Crime explores the historical relations of modern art and modern museum, the conceptual vicissitudes of art history and visual studies, the recent travails of art criticism, and the double aftermath of modernism and postmodernism in an attempt to illuminate the conditions for critical culture in the present.
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Radical Thinkers
Condition
New
Weight
229g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844676705
SKU
V9781844676705
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About Hal Foster
Hal Foster is the author of numerous books, including The Art-Architecture Complex, The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency, and, with Richard Serra, Conversations about Sculpture. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he delivered the 2018 Mellon Lectures at the ... Read more
Reviews for Design and Crime
Foster is spot-on ... exactly the kind of book the design world should want.
Bookforum
Elegant and incisive essays.
Boston Review
In a polite and even schmoozy art world, Foster stands out for being willing to make barbed comments on design gods.
National Post
Foster makes a lot of sense.
Village Voice
... Read more
Bookforum
Elegant and incisive essays.
Boston Review
In a polite and even schmoozy art world, Foster stands out for being willing to make barbed comments on design gods.
National Post
Foster makes a lot of sense.
Village Voice
... Read more